MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'employee benefits'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:27:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1175050&cid=t_166141_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F222275948%2F More than 20,000 Lilly employees will have to pay a larger share of their health-care premiums when they retire, and some might wind up working longer than expected to earn their full pensions, The Indianapolis Star reports. The changes are designed to keep benefits plans sustainable for years to come, according to Lilly spokesman Phil Belt, who maintains the drugmaker, which has been shedding workers through attrition, is not using the changes to further reduce head count or to increase retirements. The new benefits plan has three major elements. A defined-benefit pension plan remains, but the calculation for determining retirement benefits will change, and so an unspecified number of employees “will have to work a little longer” to get the same benefit provided under the curr... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1175050 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:57:18 +0100 1175050